Spock's Beard - A Flash Before My Eyes lyrics

I. The Ballet Of The Impact (I) Prelude To The Past (II) The Ultimate Quiet (III) A Blizzard Of My Memories The windshield explodes Like a bomb packed with diamonds There's a deafening silence Time flows to a crawl As the ballet of the impact Spreads out across the blacktop Angels dancing down like raindrops In the air as they fall So this is how it goes So this is how it ends A flatbed runs a red light No time to comprehend As a blizzard of my memories Lights up like fireflies In the sliver of an instant In a flash before my eyes... II. I Wouldn't Let It Go I was just a boy A rough and restless child All skin and bones and thistles A tough weed growing wild Someday I'd be an astronaut And make my way up to Mars But I was like a monkey With my hand stuck in a jar I was holding on to something That I couldn't make my own At times it seemed so hopeless But I wouldn't let it go No I wouldn't let it go No I would not let it go Once I took a penny Placed it on the track When the freight train flattened it I couldn't change it back I was never lost In my little town But I remember hoping That someday I'd be found III. Surfing Down The Avalanche I had a mother chasing planets Shopping doctors for her Vicodin A weekend father absent Searching dungeons for some discipline School was like a prison The zombies ruled and the ma**es just gave in I had to run - breakout - I had to run I didn't see the world like the others did Cause I couldn't see that world I had to run - break out - I had to run Break out - break out - break I am invincible No one can stop me Not even mom and dad They never had a daughter But I bet they wished they had I feel like I can walk through walls I'm fearless and shocking You're looking at the face of evil baby Comin' to ya at the tender age of thirteen The tender age of thirteen But I'm mean... I lived high on a hill Until the ground gave way I felt a wave of my debris Pick me up and carry me And the rocks started rollin' The rocks started rollin' Surfing down the avalanche Surfing down the avalanche Surfing down the avalanche Surfing down the avalanche IV. She Is Everything (I) Strange What You Remember (II) Words Of Forever The first breath of summer in warm morning rain Where crimson flowers covered the ground The world faded 'round us We fell to our knees Amazed at the love we had found She is everything The sacred, the pure The fix, the addiction The vision, the cure She rings down the years 'Round the corners we turned An ember still burns to this day But now it's all fading away She is everything With words of forever we'd paint through the night Pictures of life we would share Then we joined together with all that we owned A promise A ring and a prayer V. Climbing Up That Hill Finally got caught up We thought we had it made Then life stepped in and sent another mouth to feed our way Once our world was more than fighting traffic kids and bills Working all day straight into the night No time for chasing thrills Dancing through the landmines Right down to the wire Walking through the fire But we're Climbing up that hill Breaking for the blue skies Someday we will find our real life On the other side On a map let's find a place we've never been before Pack our bags and book a flight We'll walk right out that door Guess that's just a dream Since we grew roots and settled down Wonder if we'll ever leave this tired little town Home up on the high wire No net down below There's one thing that we both know We are Dancing through the landmines Right down to the wire Walking through the fire But we're VI. Letting Go Instrumental VII. Of The Beauty Of It All (I) If I Could Paint A Picture I am drifting on the water Far out from the land Moving through my memories As I try to understand If I wake tomorrow wiser Or it's time to shed my skin And let go of a lifetime That I can't have back again All the love we leave behind All the work we leave undone All the words we leave unspoken All the things we won't become But there's little I would change In the life that I've recalled If I could paint a picture Of the beauty of it all